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08 May 2008
Director Jennifer Baichwal follows ace photographer Edward Burtynsky round China where he documents what man has done to nature in the name of profit. Among the notable sequences are those of a huge computer graveyard, an enormous factory covering several square miles whose workers are assembled outside like robots, the vast Yangtze River Three Gorges Dam and a river whose water is the bright colour of some deadly poison.
The montage is beautiful and frightening at the same time, inspiring the question: do we really deserve to inherit the Earth?
Manufactured Landscapes
Cert: U
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